Better convergence matters for the ECB. More synchronised labour markets help align macroeconomic cycles, bringing the Eurozone closer to an optimal currency union and facilitating policymakers’ ...

The LDP lost its majority in the lower house when Ishiba called a snap general election last October. The LDP has not been in ...

A cursory review of the leading cash deposit and Isa listing tables today reveals that there are currently around 370 UK bank or building society easy access products on offer to customers, carrying ...

Alexandra White (“The US throws a lifeline to the green hydrogen industry — will it be enough?”, Newsletter, July 10) is ...

While working for Sotheby’s, I recall listening to an executive announce lay-offs with the memorable justification: “A rich man never walked past a penny.” It’s a line I’ve never forgotten, and one ...

The truth is those tariffs are paid to US Customs by US businesses importing goods from tariff-targeted countries. Tariffs are, in fact, a tax on US importers, and indirectly on consumers when those ...

From Willem Thorbecke, Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan Leo Lewis’s column was thought-provoking as always (“A weak yen is the root of Japan’s lurch to ...

France should instead look to the Finns, who have decided to go supply-side. Finland’s budget gap, a little over 4 per cent, ...

If the government is seriously considering imposing a wealth tax, it is two generations out of date (FT View, July 12). The threat of a wealth tax was in Labour’s 1974 election manifesto. Although it ...

Edward Luce used the Chinese proverb “riding at the back of a tiger” to describe Donald Trump’s current situation regarding ...

Online content and behaviour is not just a problem for children. Internet pornography is a major problem for adults who develop addictions or cross legal boundaries and for children who are exposed to ...

Your Big Read (“The fight to revive Europe’s rural areas”, July 17) reprises a familiar genre of European analysis: peripheral alarmism. By concentrating on outlier breakdowns — deserted villages, ...